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libxml2 Reference Manual |
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Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free software available under the MIT License. XML itself is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e. text language where semantic and structure are added to the content using extra "markup" information enclosed between angle brackets. HTML is the most well-known markup language. Though the library is written in C, a variety of language bindings make it available in other environments.
Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages: